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The shadows now so long do grow, That brambles like tall cedars show, Molehills seem mountains, and the ant Appears a monstrous elephant (Evening Quatrains)
View quotes by Charles Cotton

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
View quotes by Henri-Frederic Amiel

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
View quotes by William Blake

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.
View quotes by John Muir

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
View quotes by Tennessee Williams

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
View quotes by Tennessee Williams

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

View quotes by Aldous Huxley

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
View quotes by D H Lawrence

As I have said for two years now, when Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora, it was wrong to outsource the job of capturing them to Afghan warlords who a week earlier were fighting against us.
View quotes by John Kerry

Oh god, yes, everyone is going to think it's Bridget Jones climbs mountains.
View quotes by Annabelle Bond

The mountains were there and so was I.
View quotes by Maurice Herzog

We climb mountains because we like it.
View quotes by John Hunt

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
View quotes by George William Curtis

I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking.
View quotes by Sylvester Stallone

It has not been in vain: the good, the enlightened of all ages and nations have found pleasure and consolation in the beauty of the rural earth. Prophets of old retired into the solitudes of nature to wait the inspiration of heaven. It was upon Mount Horeb that Elija experienced the mighty wind, the earthquake, and the fire; and, heard the small still voice. That voice is yet heard among the mountains!
View quotes by Thomas Cole

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments
View quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Don King is a man who wants to swallow mountains, walk on water and sleep on clouds.
View quotes by Mark Kram

I grew up in Ireland, and the ocean was never more than an arm's length away. As lovely as the mountains are and as friendly as the people of Utah are, I feel a bit landlocked here.
View quotes by Roma Downey

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
View quotes by Edmund Hillary



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